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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;johnmilton, post: 5293407, member: 101855&quot;]<b>Dwight D. Eisenhower</b></p><p><b><br /></b></p><p><b>1957</b></p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1222344[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p><i>A heart attack plus an attack of Crohn’s disease led some to believe that Dwight Eisenhower would not seek re-election in 1956. A “draft Ike” movement proved to be unnecessary. </i></p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1222345[/ATTACH] </p><p><br /></p><p><i>Richard Nixon was Eisenhower&#039;s running mate again in 1956, although Ike suggested that he might serve the administration better in a cabinet position. </i></p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1222346[/ATTACH] </p><p><br /></p><p><b>Designer</b> Walker Hancock</p><p><br /></p><p><b>Diameter</b>&nbsp; 70 mm</p><p><br /></p><p><b>Mintages </b> 3 in gold, 1,033 in silver, 21,705 in bronze</p><p><br /></p><p><b>Notes:</b> President Eisenhower requested that Richard Nixon’s portrait appear on his second inaugural medal and once more asked Walker Hancock to design it. Hancock had moved to Rome to serve as the Sculptor in Residence at the American Academy, where he had been a fellow 30 years earlier. He was not prepared for the request but felt obligated to accept it. He was forced to work from photos and had many problems with the obverse lettering. Those difficulties accounted for the simplicity of the reverse design.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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